Beer Goggles? Is The Phenomenon Really True? Scientists explain the effect of "Beer Goggles" A British reseracher may have unlocked the mystery of beer goggles."The more you have to drink, the better looking everyone is around you." Proffessor Lewis Halsey did this experiment at a local bar near the university, where he had two groups of people. One group had a few alcoholic drinks and the other had nothing to drink. The groups were then split up into sub groups depending on their tests with a breathalizer. They were asked to take a test. The test was two pictures of the same person, one picture was normal, the other was slightly alter on one side. The sober groups found that the normal picture was more attractive to them. On the other hand, the groups that had something to drink seemed to rate both pictures closer to the same as they were more impared. Halsey said this is because as we get more impared, we lose the ability to see symmetry, which is one of the main factors which makes a person attractive. So in simple terms, The drunker you get, the more attractive everyone around you gets. "All people have asymmetry," says Halsey. "Therefore they're all going to tend to look more symmetrical to people who are impared, because they can't see the asymmetry, and therefore they are going to tend to look a little bit more attractive."
Is The Phenomenon Really True?
Scientists explain the effect of "Beer Goggles"
A British reseracher may have unlocked the mystery of beer goggles."The more you have to drink, the better looking everyone is around you." Proffessor Lewis Halsey did this experiment at a local bar near the university, where he had two groups of people. One group had a few alcoholic drinks and the other had nothing to drink. The groups were then split up into sub groups depending on their tests with a breathalizer.
They were asked to take a test.
The test was two pictures of the same person, one picture was normal, the other was slightly alter on one side. The sober groups found that the normal picture was more attractive to them. On the other hand, the groups that had something to drink seemed to rate both pictures closer to the same as they were more impared. Halsey said this is because as we get more impared, we lose the ability to see symmetry, which is one of the main factors which makes a person attractive. So in simple terms, The drunker you get, the more attractive everyone around you gets.
"All people have asymmetry," says Halsey. "Therefore they're all going to tend to look more symmetrical to people who are impared, because they can't see the asymmetry, and therefore they are going to tend to look a little bit more attractive."
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